by jordicabot | Nov 27, 2023 | philosophy, product development, stories entrepreneur
Building quick and dirty applications is getting easier and easier. But building reliable and mature ones is as difficult as ever. If not more given the increasing expectations of clients after seeing all the flashy demos going around. One example: there are now tens...
by jordicabot | Jun 13, 2022 | philosophy, publishing, Research Rants
More and more papers are published every year. Just look at the graphic above (and DBLP already does a good job in filtering out most predatory journals!). It’s probably true that we publish more high-quality research than ever. But it’s also true that we...
by jordicabot | Aug 17, 2020 | doing research, evaluating research, philosophy, Research Rants
Last month, I was discussing with Feli, from the budgeting team at my university, to upgrade the plan I had with WPEngine as we were paying overage charges due to excess visits. The plan was capped 100.000 thousand visits per month. And many months we were going over...
by jordicabot | May 9, 2020 | Research Rants, philosophy
I’m getting more and more into Stoicism. It’s over 2000 years old but still in force (see modern stoicism). In short, Stoicism, “it’s a meditative technique that transforms negative emotions into a sense of calm and perspective” (Ryan Holiday)....
by jordicabot | Jan 8, 2017 | customers, philosophy, product development, stories entrepreneur
The notion of code coverage is well known in software testing. In short, it computes how well the test suite you are using to test the quality of the code covers all parts (statements/conditions/…) of that code. Obviously, the higher your code coverage the lower...
by jordicabot | Sep 5, 2014 | philosophy, stories entrepreneur
You may be familiar with the Bus Factor concept (in short, the bus factor is the number of people in your team that need to get hit by a bus before your project can’t go on). This metric is typically applied to the development team to make sure that information...
